A collection of Soviet control rooms (2017)
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A collection of Soviet control rooms (2017)
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#2What's the sun-shaped thing in photo #2?
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#3The most visually appealing part is the use of colours that you wouldn’t expect on an industrial control panel.
The first picture shows a shade of blue, as well as red and yellow symbols for whatever they might mean.
Also, approximately fifteen images down shows a switch control panel for a two-platform, triple-track Moscow Metro station (Полежаевская) that was intended to have a branch line, but mothballed due to future ridership projections.
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#4There is a Star Trek bridge vibe to those circular control rooms.
I wonder if there's a tradeoff point where if you have less than some number of people, the circular design is more optimal to enable communications between people and access to data.
At some point with more people (and more data) it becomes untenable to keep the circular design and you go more linear, such as the NASA mission control room.
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#5What's the sun-shaped thing in photo #2?
I think it's a graphical representation of the RBMK control rods [1].
It's also in the last two images. These are replaceable control rods that were laid out in a circular pattern in the RBMK class reactors.
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#6What's the sun-shaped thing in photo #2?
Status of nuclear control rods I imagine?
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#7What's the sun-shaped thing in photo #2?
There are a few pictures with this arrangement. My guess is these are nuclear reactor control rooms, and those representthe control rod arrays.
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#8What's the sun-shaped thing in photo #2?
#2 links to atomic-energy.ru
So it's probably nuclear plant control console and I'm guessing nuclear fuel rods are represented by a dot inside the "sun" and rods themselves are suspended in some sort of a circular enclosure
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#9good zoom backgrounds
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#10The most visually appealing part is the use of colours that you wouldn’t expect on an industrial control panel. The first picture shows a shade of blue, as well as red and yellow symbols for whatever they might mean. Also, approximately fifteen images down shows a switch control panel for a two-platform, triple-track Moscow Metro station (Полежаевская) that was intended to have a branch line, but mothballed due to fu…
Always felt bad when replacing these old control rooms, there is a certain beauty and elegance to their design that is missing in modern HMIs.
This sort of color coding is common in industrial settings and definitely was on panelboards of the era. It would be really interesting if the color coding seen here in any way aligns with ANSI/ASME A13.1.